A walk in the hills
Sunday morning: we were up early and had breakfast and then set out, around 10.00 for a walk in the hills. We followed my current favourite route, up through the village, out on the donkey path to Agia Paraskevi and then, just beyond the house near there, turned off onto the very rocky path that leads around the side of the hill and comes out at Saint Rafael.
Form here you can see the other side of the island and, on a clear day, Kos in the distance. We had quick chat with some goats and then headed back down the valley behind Yialos. As we neared the bottom we could hear the marching band and the church bells, as it was the May 8th parade, celebrating the end of WWII. We thought we’d missed the parade (as we’d heard the band much earlier) and so went and had a beer at Pacho’s, a traditional harbour kafeneion. As it turned out, the parade hadn’t even started, but we were into our beer and heading for a light lunch by then.
We sat at Meraklis and had gigantes, crab salad (a dip) some chips, courgette fritters and an omelette – between three of us; and very nice it was too, and very reasonable. After that we walked back up the steps to home so that Neil could be ready in time for work at three. The morning walk from home to harbour on the circular route took less than two hours and it’s a great walk, though you do have wear the right shoes as it’s very hard underfoot if not. It was one of those things: we were on the way down and got to the point of saying, ‘I think the path goes this way,’ and ‘No, I think it’s further down,’ when a voice yells out, ‘Hello!’ and there in their mountain house, were our next door neighbours. I never knew they had a small farm/house there but they do, and just in the right place to make sure we didn’t end up on the wrong side of the terracing. How handy.
Anyway; off into another week, another trip to Rhodes, more work and the usual, and then a dinner invite on Thursday and the weather looking like it’s calming down and warming up. There are also lots of people we know starting to arrive for their holidays so we can officially say, winter is over, spring has spring and summer will be along in a minute.
